Affected community members

Esther Stanford-Xosei (Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe, PARCOE)

Esther has been deeply involved in reparations scholar-activism, within and beyond the UK, for over two decades and therefore brings a lot of practical knowledge, lived experience and recognition of reparations ethics to this role.

She is a Motherist, and decolonial Pan-Afrikanist Jurisconsult, Reparationist and Community Advocate specialising in the critical legal praxis of ‘law as resistance’ as an approach to social movement-lawyering. Her main work entails reparations movement-building, advocacy as well as policy development and research to further the cause of holistic reparations and Planet Repairs under the auspices of the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe, Stop The Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign, National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, and the International Network of Scholars & Activists for Afrikan Reparations, of which she is a co-facilitator.

Esther also serves as the Executive Director of the Maangamizi Educational Trust and in this regard, co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations Link. She was motivated to get involved with the REWG because of the opening this engagement offers to hopefully correct the increasingly worrying tendency in most reparative initiatives emerging from UK universities of not recognising the rights of Afrikan Heritage Communities of Reparatory Justice Interest as stakeholders; as well as ignoring the historicity of reparations organising within the UK and the glocal reparations plans of the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations.  

Zaki El-Salahi (Youth, Community & Family worker from Edinburgh and East Oxford, and lead volunteer on Edinburgh’s Sudanese Community Partnership) 

Zaki El-Salahi is a Community Education professional from Edinburgh and East Oxford. He’s the lead volunteer on Edinburgh’s Sudanese Community Partnership, a project that brings together Edinburgh University and The Sudanese Community in Edinburgh to redress the power dynamics between Africans & the University past, present & future. He has worked for Black community organisations across Edinburgh since 2008, and was co-chair of the Scotland Black Workers Forum 2016-2020 at Barnardo’s Scotland, as well as his involvement with freelance work as ‘Dark Matter education’, and brings Human Rights, Participation & Safeguarding expertise to the REWG.

Zaki’s was recruited to the REWG by Lisa Williams of the Edinburgh Caribbean Association, as they are both active within Edinburgh’s Pan-African Network.

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